AS ISO/IEC 15424—2006

ISO/IEC 15424:2000
AS ISO/IEC 15424—2006

Australian Standard®
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Information technology—Automatic
identification and data capture
techniques—Data Carrier Identifiers
(including Symbology Identifiers)
 This Australian Standard® was prepared by Committee IT-034, Automatic Identification and
Data Capture Techniques. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on
15 November 2006.
This Standard was published on 27 December 2006.

The following are represented on Committee IT-034:

• Australian Custom Service

• Australian Data Capture Association
• Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association
• Australian Retailers Association
• Australian Veterinary Association
•
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Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

• Department of Defence
• Department of Primary Industries, Vic
• RFID Association of Australia
• The University of Adelaide
• GS1

This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 06518.

Standards Australia wishes to acknowledge the participation of the expert individuals that
contributed to the development of this Standard through their representation on the
Committee and through public comment period.

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Australian Standard®
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Information technology—Automatic
identification and data capture
techniques—Data Carrier Identifiers
(including Symbology Identifiers)

First published as AS ISO/IEC 15424—2006.

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee IT-034, Automatic
Identification and Data Capture Techniques.
The objective of this Standard is to provide standardization in the reporting of data carriers from
bar code readers and other automatic identification equipment for the Retail industry.
This Standard is identical with, and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 15424:2000,
Information technology—Automatic identification and data capture techniques—Data Carrier
Identifiers (including Symbology Identifiers).
As this Standard is reproduced from an international standard, the following applies:
(a) Its number appears on the cover and title page while the international standard number
appears only on the cover.
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(b) In the source text ‘this International Standard’ should read ‘this Australian Standard’.
(c) A full point substitutes for a comma when referring to a decimal marker.
The normative reference documents listed in Clause 2 have not been adopted as Australian
Standards.
The terms ‘normative’ and ‘informative’ are used to define the application of the annex to
which they apply. A normative annex is an integral part of a standard, whereas an informative
annex is only for information and guidance.
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CONTENTS

Page

Contents Page

Foreword.....................................................................................................................................................................iv
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................v
1 Scope ..............................................................................................................................................................1
2 Normative references ....................................................................................................................................1
3 Terms and definitions ...................................................................................................................................1
4 Requirements .................................................................................................................................................2
4.1 Structure .........................................................................................................................................................2
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4.2 Code characters.............................................................................................................................................2

4.3 Modifier characters........................................................................................................................................3
Annex A (normative) Maintenance ..........................................................................................................................11
Annex B (normative) Symbology emulation ..........................................................................................................12
Annex C (informative) Reference documents ........................................................................................................14

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INTRODUCTION

Introduction
The need exists to identify the data carrier a reader detects in autodiscrimination environments. The Symbology
Identifier concept provides a standardized way for a device receiving data from a reader to differentiate between
the data carriers. This specification deals mostly with bar code symbologies, therefore the terms Symbology
Identifier, symbology, and bar code are used throughout the document but they are intended to apply to other data
carriers as well.

This identification is achieved by the addition of an optional feature to readers enabling the reader to prefix a
standard string of characters to data messages. This preamble contains information about the decoded symbol (or
other data carrier) and any processing the reader has done. The information is not encoded or otherwise explicitly
or implicitly represented in the symbol, except that the presence of some optional features may be detected by the
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reading equipment, whereas others require the reader to be expressly configured to implement them.

This International Standard should be read in conjunction with the relevant symbology specifications.

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 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 1 ISO/IEC 15424:2000(E)

AUSTRALIAN STANDARD

Information technology — Automatic identification and data

capture techniques — Data Carrier Identifiers (including
Symbology Identifiers)

1 Scope
This International Standard applies to automatic identification device communication conventions and standardizes
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the reporting of data carriers from bar code readers and other automatic identification equipment. It specifies a
preamble message generated by the reader and interpretable by the receiving system, which indicates the bar
code symbology or other origin of transmitted data, together with details of certain specified optional processing
features associated with the data message.

2 Normative references
The following normative documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of
this International Standard. For dated references, subsequent amendments to, or revisions of, any of these
publications do not apply. However, parties to agreements based on this International Standard are encouraged to
investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the normative documents indicated below. For
undated references, the latest edition of the normative document referred to applies. Members of ISO and IEC
maintain registers of currently valid International Standards.

ISO/IEC 646:1991, Information technology — ISO 7-bit Character Set for information interchange.

EN 1556, Bar coding — Terminology.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this International Standard, the terms and definitions given in EN 1556 and the following apply.

3.1
code character
second character in the symbology identifier string, which usually indicates to the host the bar code symbology of
the symbol which has been read

3.2
flag character
first character in the symbology identifier string, which indicates to the host that it and the characters following are
the symbology identifier characters

3.3
modifier characters
remaining characters following the code character in the symbology identifier string

3.4
FNC1
special function character used for specific purposes in certain symbologies

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